| Giga Scale IC Launches ChipEstimate.com, Offering Designers Free Chip Estimation Tool Featured |
February 7, 2005 -- Giga Scale Integration Corp. (Giga Scale IC) has launched ChipEstimate.com to provide electronic designers with free access to InCyte, a chip estimation tool which helps control the cost of ICs early in the design cycle at th ... read more |
| Impinj Announces Availability of AEFuse Memory Multi-Time Programmable Fuse in Standard Logic CMOS |
February 7, 2005 -- Impinj, Inc., whose patented Self-Adaptive Silicon technology enables its semiconductor intellectual property (IP) business, today announced the availability of Advanced Erasable Fuse, AEFuse memory, the embedded nonvolati ... read more |
| Synopsys Reduces Area and Power Low Gate Count, Modular Hi-Speed USB On-The-Go Core |
February 7, 2005 -- Synopsys, Inc. has announced the release of its DesignWare Hi-Speed Universal Serial Bus (USB) On-The-Go (OTG) controller core, which, according to the company, is the lowest gate count IP available on the market. The core lo ... read more |
| Xilinx FPGA Embedded Processing Platform Studio Wins DesignVision Award |
February 7, 2005 -- The Xilinx Platform Studio (XPS) embedded tool suite received top honors at the inaugural International Engineering Consortium (IEC) DesignVision Award reception held last week at the DesignCon Conference in Santa Clara, Cal ... read more |
| eASIC's Structured ASIC Wins DesignVision Award |
February 7, 2005 -- eASIC Corp. today announced that its Structured eASIC product won the DesignVision Award presented by The International Engineering Consortium (IEC). These inaugural DesignVision Awards are aimed at recognizing companies for ... read more |
| Zuken Launches Upgraded Version of CADSTAR 3D PCB Design Tool |
February 8, 2005 -- Zuken's desktop 3D design tool, CADSTAR 3D, has been upgraded to include increased functionality and performance improvements. The addition of new Windows XP functions makes CADSTAR 3D 4.4 easier to use, with drag and drop lo ... read more |
| Cadence, IBM and Rising Collaborate to Enable Leading-Edge SCDMA/GSM RF IC Transceiver |
February 3, 2005 -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. and Rising Microelectronics Co., Ltd. today announced that Rising has started sampling a SCDMA/GSM dual mode (1.8GHz SCDMA and 900MHz GSM) radio frequency IC transceiver. The transceiver was desig ... read more |
| DVCon 2005 Announces John Cooley's Bigwigs Panel Participants |
February 3, 2005 -- DVCon 2005 (Design and Verification Conference) has announced the line-up for the Bigwigs panel moderated by John Cooley of ESNUG. The panel will begin at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, February 15 in the Donnor Ballroom at the Double ... read more |
| Synopsys Announces Support for SUSE LINUX With Galaxy Design and Discovery Verification Platforms |
February 2, 2005 -- Synopsys, Inc. has announced that it will support the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 operating system (OS) from Novell on both 32-bit and 64-bit x86 instruction sets for Synopsys' Galaxy Design and Discovery Verification Plat ... read more |
| UMC Joins the ZSP Foundry Program; Adds the ZSP400 Core to Its IP Library |
February 2, 2005 -- LSI Logic Corp. has announced that UMC is now offering the ZSP400 digital signal processor (DSP) core as part of its comprehensive portfolio of intellectual property (IP). By having access to the completed physical design of ... read more |
| Cadence First Encounter Global Physical Synthesis Wins IEC DesignVision Award |
February 2, 2005 -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc.'s First Encounter Global Physical Synthesis (GPS) technology has won the International Engineering Consortium (IEC) DesignVision award for ASIC and IC Implementation at DesignCon 2005. First Enc ... read more |
| SMIC Joins LSI Logic ZSP Foundry Program Expanding Access to DSP Technology |
February 2, 2005 -- LSI Logic Corp. today announced that Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) has joined the ZSP Foundry Program obtaining a manufacturing license for the ZSP400 and ZSP500 cores. The Shanghai-based SMIC is an ... read more |
| Kilopass to Provide Tower Semiconductor Field-Programmable Non-Volatile Memory for 0.18-Micron CMOS Process |
February 1, 2005 -- Kilopass Technology, Inc., a provider of semiconductor non-volatile memory (NVM) intellectual property (IP) for standard CMOS logic, has entered into a foundry technology agreement with Tower Semiconductor, Ltd. Kilopass' XP ... read more |
| Toshiba Adopts SonicsMX for Next Generation Handheld Chips |
February 1, 2005 -- Sonics, Inc. today announced that Toshiba Corp. will design the SonicsMX and Sonics3220 SMART Interconnects into its family of wireless handheld products. Toshiba currently uses Sonics’ Silicon Backplane SMART Interconnect a ... read more |
| UMC and Ansoft Address RFCMOS Design Requirements with On-Chip Spiral Inductor Library |
February 1, 2005 -- UMC and Ansoft Corp. have announced immediate availability of the first parameterized spiral inductor design kit based on full-wave simulation. The kit enables RFCMOS designers to create and simulate custom inductor geometrie ... read more |
| LSI Logic Launches ZSP Foundry Program |
February 1, 2005 -- LSI Logic Corp. has launched the ZSP Foundry Program allowing fabless semiconductor companies and OEMs broader access to the popular ZSP digital signal processing technology.
A design-only license gives fabless custom ... read more |
| Chipidea Licenses Synopsys' Galaxy Design and Discovery Verification Platforms |
February 1, 2005 -- Synopsys, Inc. today announced that Chipidea, an analog and mixed-signal semiconductor IP provider, has licensed key tools included in Synopsys' Galaxy Design and Discovery Verification platforms to address tough IP design c ... read more |
| Magma's QuickCap NX Extractor Available for UMC's Deep Submicron Technologies |
January 31, 2005 -- Magma Design Automation, Inc. and UMC today announced that Magma's QuickCap NX extractor tool has been validated on UMC's 0.13-micron process. As a result of this validation, UMC has adopted QuickCap NX for device and interc ... read more |
| Altera Updates Specifications for Stratix II FPGAs Reflecting Higher Performance and Lower Power Featured |
January 31, 2005 -- As its Stratix II FPGA family moves into volume production, Altera Corp. has released new specifications reflecting higher performance and lower power. With these enhanced specifications, the maximum operating frequencies of ... read more |
| LSI Logic Offers 440 MHz Synthesized MIPS32 24Kf Processor Core and Reference Design |
January 31, 2005 -- LSI Logic Corp. has announced that it is offering the first MIPS32 24Kf microprocessor core at 440 MHz, complete with a supporting reference design and a bridge to the AMBA bus. The 440 MHz timing- closed MIPS32 24Kf core is ... read more |
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